Violent Clash in Istanbul at Newspaper Offices

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Turkish police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of protesters trying to resist a takeover of the country’s biggest newspaper, seized by authorities in a crackdown on opposition media linked to a religious group whose leader lives in exile in the United States. Police confronted around 500 protesters Saturday outside the Istanbul…

IRA-style booby trap bomb wounds prison officer in Belfast

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DUBLIN — Irish Republican Army die-hards tried to kill a Belfast prison officer with an under-car booby trap bomb and are plotting to kill Northern Ireland security forces as the 100th anniversary of an Irish rebellion against British rule approaches, a police commander warned Friday. Stephen Martin, assistant chief constable of the Northern Ireland police,…